Chosen People Poem by gershon hepner

CHOSEN PEOPLE


Not only chosen people, they’ve been frozen
in time by Sinai laws that made them docen-
tophilic, thinking there should come from Zion
a Torah that the gentiles are not buyin’
unless emasculated by a prepuce,
retained by them, rejected by the Hebrews,
who think the cause of His divine decision
to choose the Jews was, oddly, circumcision.

Inspired by a pre-opera talk by Paul G. Floyd, , who pointed out that the third act of Verdi’s “La Traviata” ends conventionally, unlike the other three odds, with all the chosen cast frozen, singing a finale in a grand finale.


6/10/09